“The River” – Springsteen’s Most Anxious Album
The world is not lacking monuments to Bruce Springsteen. His work has been exhaustively parsed, reissued, celebrated, annotated, and admired. At present, it is wildly difficult to find a reasonable person willing to decry his oeuvre as insignificant or inadequate. In the nineteen-sixties, after Woody Guthrie got sick, Bob Dylan seemed primed to become the […]